Lag vs Hurry - What's the difference?

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Lag is a related term of hurry.

As nouns the difference between lag and hurry

is that lag is location while hurry is rushed action.

As a verb hurry is

(label) to do things quickly.

lag

English

Adjective

late

* 1592 , William Shakespeare, King Richard III

Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.

(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.

* Shakespeare

the lag end of my life

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

* Dryden

lag souls

Noun

(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.

* 2004 , May 10. The New Yorker Online,

During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag .

(uncountable) Delay; latency.

* 1999 , Loyd Case, Building the ultimate game PC

Whatever the symptom, lag is a drag. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server.

* 2001 , Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet

When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.

* 2002 , Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible

Latency, or lag , is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.

(British, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

(British, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.

* 1934 , , Thank You, Jeeves

On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now.

(snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.

One who lags; that which comes in last.

* Alexander Pope

the lag of all the flock

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

* Shakespeare

the common lag of people

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

A bird, the greylag.

Usage notes

In casual use, lag' and (latency) are used synonymously for “delay between initiating an action and the effect”, with '''lag''' more casual. In formal use, ''latency'' is the technical term, while ' lag is used when latency is greater than usual, particularly in internet gaming.

Synonyms

* (delay) latency

Derived terms

* time lag * jet lag * lagging jacket * lag screw

Verb

(lagg)

to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I

Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag , / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.

* 1616 , George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer

Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost

* 1717 , The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands

While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.

* 1798 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts

Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along

* 2004 , — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004

Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan.

to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material

* c. 1974 , , The Building

Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.

(UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.

* De Quincey

She lags us if we poach.

To cause to lag; to slacken.

* Heywood

To lag his flight.

Derived terms

* lagging * laggard

Anagrams

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hurry

English

Noun

Rushed action.

* '>citation

Urgency.

(sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.

Derived terms

* in a hurry

Verb

(en-verb)

(label) To do things quickly.

*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry , with futile energy, from place to place.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}

(label) Often with (up), to speed up the rate of doing something.

(label) To cause to be done quickly.

(label) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

*:Impetuous lust hurries him on.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:They hurried him aboard a bark.

(label) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends.

Synonyms

* See also